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Petri-Dishing the Dirt: Astrobiology down a North-Yorkshire Mine
Is there life on Mars? Lets go down a mine to find out!..Wait, what? Just outside of Whitby and 1,100 metres underground in the Boulby Underground Laboratory, Jennifer Wadsworth, a PhD physics student at the University of Edinburgh is researching how microbes can survive down there and how they might exist in similar extreme environments like on Mars. She's also using the Boulby caverns to test equipment that will be sent on the future 'ExoMars' Martian Rover mission to the…
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If You Say ‘um’, You’re Lying
What is it about the way that someone speaks that makes you think they’re lying? In this talk, Martin present a series of experiments looking at speech disfluency (“um or er”) and how it affects listeners’ judgements. In particular, he shows that judgements are affected *fast*: Listeners may have made their minds up long before the speaker has even got to the “lying” bit of what they’re saying. He goes on to explore the basis of listeners’ judgements: Are they…
Find out more »Glasgow Skeptics visit Cafe Scientifique: The Sleeping Giant
So we don't have an official Glasgow Skeptics event on this date ... but our friends over in Cafe Scientifique have got something to tickle your fancy instead. This month's topic: The Sleeping Giant: The Current State of Solar Activity The Sun has a natural 11 year activity cycle, and we are currently experiencing a lull in solar activity known as solar minimum. How does this quiet period affect modern life here on earth? What have we learned about solar…
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Cancer Cures: Are we nearly there yet? – Dr Alice Howarth
One in two of us will suffer with cancer in our lifetime and almost all of us have some experience of the disease. But do we really know what cancer is and how we can work towards a cure? Is a cure even possible? And how can we arm ourselves with the right information to help us prevent and treat cancer? Alice is a researcher who has worked in the Institute of Translational Medicine at the University of Liverpool with…
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